NSW cemetery killer to face sentencing

A MAN who ran over and killed his father at a Sydney cemetery will face a sentence hearing.

AFTER his father, 86, fell over following a visit to his mother's grave at Rookwood cemetery John Giannasca, 59, drove over him while behind the wheel of a Honda Accord.He pleaded guilty in June to negligent driving occasioning death over the December 2014 incident, and is due to face a sentence hearing at Burwood Local Court on Tuesday.Giannasca was in January 2012 found not guilty of killing his wife in 2002.Carmel Giannasca's body has never been found and after almost a week of deliberations, a NSW Supreme Court jury returned a not guilty verdict for both the charge of murder and the alternate charge of manslaughter.